We said our goodbyes last week in Dallas, such a bittersweet time. Jackson and Josie enjoyed their last park visits and Friday pizza nights with friends. Jonathan and I desperately saw as many friends as possible and dined out at the Alligator Cafe about 5 times last week. I can't really find the words to describe how much we are going to miss our friends (that have become family). Time in seminary has a way of bonding families, building friendships that can never be broken. While we are excited about being in TN with family, nothing will replace those we have fellowshipped alongside with during the trials and celebrations over the past 6 years. We endured school, grew our families, graduated, job searched, and so much more together. I know theses friendships will continue, no distance too far. Oh, how we have been blessed!!
Saying hello to TN has been far from boring. Jonathan keeps saying, "We're not in Kansas anymore." In the first week, aside from all 3 kids being on antibiotics, nature has been the focus. We carefully transported a Monarch butterfly chrysalis via I30/I40 from Jackson's friends at mother's day out. It opened and we enjoyed a miraculous display of God's beauty. A baby mole wondered in the front door as I was coming in the house one afternoon. Jackson was in hysterics watching my mom and I trap and sweep it out. Multiple lizards live around the house and sun on the brick in the afternoons. A nest of birds made their home on the front door wreath and the mother bird flew inside the house one day. And I must not forget the large snake we ran up on in the woods behind the house. I promptly got a shotgun lesson from Jonathan the following day. Hoping our days continue to be just as exciting as our first week.
Last day at the park with friends.
